Jackson obtained his medical degree from Harvard in 1829. He was interested in geology as well as medicine and chemistry and he made several geological surveys of various parts of New England between 1837 and 1844. Always a quarralsome type with a touch of madness underneath the surface, he went mad in 1873 and never recovered.

1. English, 1832.
Remarks on the mineralogy and geology of the peninsula of Nova Scotia accompanied by a colored map, illustrative of the structure of the country, and by several views of its scenery by Charles T. Jackson and Francis Alger [from the Memoirs of the American Academy.] Cambridge, E.W. Metcalf, 1832.

Very scarce. A large compilation of mostly northern New Hampshire geology and mineralogy together with lore that includes cheese and corn production on Cow Island and a letter about the Canterbury Shakers. The frontispiece is a grand view of the itinerant preacher in Jaffrey with Mt. Monadnock in the background. Also bound in at back are two large folded colored drawings of geological sections of New Hampshire landscape.